Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "The Boston Globe" channel.

  1. +Qingeaton Bernie has no plan, he is all rhetoric an no specifics. He is sadly economically illiterate. If he gets elected president it will be a hard 4 years.
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  2. +Qingeaton I have looked at the guy. Give me any one of his economic policies and I can break down how they simply won't work. He can't even do simple math. According to the National Center for Education Statistics there are around 21 million college students. The average rate of tuition for them at a public school is over $6000. That is 126 billion dollars. His "free college" plan will only bring in $70 billion, that is assuming his tax plan is correct and he only is in control of $47 billion. The rest is at the mercy of the states. Let us look at the min. wage and Walmart. Bernie has been a strong opponent to Walmart. One complaint is that the CEOs earn so much and the workers earn so little. Walmart has 2.2 million workers. According to the president of Walmart Bill Simon around 1 million are hourly and 525,000 earn less than $25,000 a year. Do you trust those numbers? I don't completely, but even with that my point will still hold strong. The top executive of Walmart, Doug McMillion earned almost $20 million. If you were to take that money and spread it across all the workers earning less than $25,000 a year they will earn and extra $38 a year. Ok, now you may say that Walmart have multiple board members. That is true. Let us take the top 6 that earned a combined $77 million. Let us bump it up to $80 million, a nice round number. Spread that to 525,000 employees evenly and they earn an extra $152 a year. That is it. Very simple math. I am sorry but considering how Bernie can't do math that a 6th grader can do goes to show he is not worthy of being president.
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  3. +Danny Sprawka Read what I just wrote. Considering how he can't even do simple math goes to show that he is not worth voting for.
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  4. +Danny Sprawka I know his plan, by his own numbers it won't cover the cost of college. If you want to look at profits businesses don't make that much in profits. Walmart is as large as it is due to it's 3.2 billion outstanding shares. Shareholders get a lot of the profits. If the board of Walmart were to cut profits to pay workers more then shareholders will elect in a new board and we will be back to where we started. You may say all of that is bad but due to that many shareholders is why Walmart is 1. so big which leads to more jobs and convenient locations for consumers, 2. Is able to be open 24 hours which once again helps consumers, and 3. is able to sell a variety of goods at a low price. All of which helps consumers, especially low income earners. Even with all of that they still pay competitive wages when compared to other retail stores. " If wages were adjusted for inflation, minimum wage would be higher." You can't compare the min. wage to inflation. Saying that the min. wage should be higher simply because of "inflation" is saying that everything needs to be higher. But that is not the case. Some things get more expensive, but most goods and services either stay the same or drop in price. Look at cell phones and computers for example. Or if you want to look at labor look at Blockbuster employees, they are now worth $0/hr. In some ways the Walmart employee is worth less now due to self checkouts.
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  5. +Qingeaton Even at that it is still at $78 billion, and that is not including the increase enrollment that will happen when when college becomes "free".
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  6. +Qingeaton Wealth does not equal income, that is another problem with Bernie. He tries to equate wealth with income, they are completely different. Around 60% of the average homeowner's wealth is in their home, a homeowner has 30 times more wealth than a renter. Beyond owning a home the average person has little wealth. Does that mean they are not well off? No. You can have a nice income but little wealth. You need to learn the difference between wealth and income and why there is wealth inequality. "30 years of flat wages for the average and no ability for savings accounts, which even if you could afford to pay into wouldn't pay any interest anyway." Disposable income has been going up for decades at a steady rate. Inflation is mainly due to the federal government. Anything the federal government has touched has gone up which goes against a healthy economy. In a healthy, growing economy goods and services get better and cheaper. We have seen that in areas that the federal government has not touch and the private sector has, for the most part, complete control. Cell phones, cars, TVs, computers, LASIK etc. All better and cheaper. Now look at education, food and gas, all areas the federal government has touched and prices have gone up. We are pumping a lot of oil but gas prices have been rising. One main reason is that the EPA has prevented us from building a refinery in 40 years. " I guess you are right. We should just keep doing the same stuff we have been doing for 30 years. It's working for somebody, at least they can live the dream." Some components we should still do. Electing Bernie Sanders whose polices will compound our current problems is something we should not do.
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  7. +Qingeaton Even with that $33 billion is at the mercy of the states. How do we raise that?
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  8. +Qingeaton And the one now is safer, last longer, gets better gas mileage and has more amenities. So all around it is cheaper.
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  9. +Qingeaton They are cheaper. You are getting more bang for your buck. That is what you have to look at, what value are you getting for your dollar. Would you rather spend $10,000 on a car that last for 100,000 miles or $15,000 for a car that last 200,000 miles?
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  10. +Robert Patrizi "I do believe Bernie knows a thing or two that you don't when it comes to economics in your country." Maybe, but as a whole he his showing how ignorant he is economically. A great example is the min. wage. When asked to get into specifics in the past he just screams "Walmart" or "rich CEOs" and that is it. "Free chance to educate yourself " You have that already. Most cities have their own public universities and with internet you have a lot of resources. You don't need the government to be educated. Plus if you are talking about "free college" I already told you the flaws in that. We simply don't have the space or the man power. " and a health care where people aren't frightened by the cost of getting a cure" Healthcare is more expensive mainly due to the federal government dating back to the 1940s. Bernie, like what he wants to do with college, is give healthcare away. Like college we lack the resources. We lack doctors and hospitals. How do you plan on fixing that? " If my government would take that away from me and my people in my country i would cry out for justice and burn the government to the ground if i had to along with my people" If the system the government has is inferior intelligent people will praise the day when the government takes their hands off of those programs. "Don't worry. Bernie seems to be the only one of the candidates who knows how to execute his ideas. If your interested in how, you should keep watching because soon it will be fed to you in the debates." I am waiting for the debates. I made the Bernie Sanders Drinking Game. When he says 1. Milllionaires and billionaires 2. Walmart or the Walton family 3. Establishments 4. The Koch Brothers You take a drink. He repeats the same things over and over again. It is all rhetoric and no specifics. When asked to get into specifics he can't, neither can his supporters. As I shown here with "free college". How is he going to pay for it? How is he going to make up for the lack of resources and professors? I never said that quote.
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  11. +Qingeaton And that is fine, that is one example. As a whole cars are cheaper though.
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  12. +decay1966 Well you need a reason why to vote for Bernie. So far all of Bernie Sanders' supporters don't have a reason why they are supporting him, or fail to realize that his policies simply won't work.
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  13. +Robert Patrizi If you want democracy we have to place limitations on the federal government and go back to state rights which is smaller, more local government. Him expanding the federal government is the opposite of democracy.
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  14. +decay1966 He wants government to run healthcare. He wants government to run college education. He if for raising the min. wage which is known to kill jobs for teenagers. He response to the job loss in teenagers is to fund for new jobs for them. So after he kills the jobs for teenagers he wants to make them dependent on the government. Problems such as high tuition and high healthcare cost and high teenage unemployment can be linked to the federal government in a strong way. Bernie's solution to solving the very problem the federal government created is more federal government and more spending. It won't work. It if the definition of insanity, trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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  15. +decay1966 It isn't that, it is that the people voting for him are confused.
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  16. +decay1966 Why is the political system rigged? Because of the size of the federal government. If the federal government is limited in power then it can't be bought. Bernie is not going to live forever. After his term is done what is going to stop future politicians from abusing their power? This is exactly what happened after FDR was done. The same will happen under Bernie. Future politicians will just take advantage of their new power. If you want money to no longer govern our nation then limit the power of the federal government, don't expand it.
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  17. +Robert Patrizi All corporations can do is offer you a good and offer you a job. Government is the only entity that can use force. If government has power it can be bought. If it does not have power then it can't be bought. Right now it has power so corporations buy it out and now they have the government on their side. If the government had limited power then corporations can't buy it out meaning it won't have it on it side. Voting for Bernie ensures the government has power so future politicians can be bought out.
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  18. +decay1966 You really have no clue what capitalism is.
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  19. +Robert Patrizi I know what it means, people who vote for Bernie don't.
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  20. +Qingeaton Out of all the candidates the one I like the most is John Kasich. He isn't ideal but right now the best. I despise Bernie because his policies will just compound our problems and make things worse. When I see him and his supporters I see madness. I see people who are so ignorant that they almost should not have the ability to vote. Bernie's ideas and policies simply won't work for one, and will just make the situation worse. I at times hope Bernie wins. If he does things will get a lot worse and maybe people will finally learn. Like the kid touching the hot pan, they learn not to touch it. If people in Bernie they will learn that his socialist ideas simply don't work and really makes things worse.
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  21. +decay1966 My account is not new, and I have posted quite a bit of comments. My comments are not to troll but to give more information on a subject. By you calling me a troll it seems that you have nothing relevant to say which I found is typical of a Bernie Sanders supporter. They vote off of emotions instead of reason. And when someone breaks down how Bernie's policies are not good they get emotional like you did and say "well you are just a troll". Really look at his policies, break them down, crunch the numbers. Do that instead of just going off of emotions.
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  22. +Qingeaton Translate "He is very smart and brings up a great point. But since I am so emotionally attached to the fantasy that Bernie's policies will be good I will just plug my ears and go la la la"
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  23. +Greg Batmarx I agree the military spending is very high, but you have to consider a few things. 1. Military spending is actually constitutional 2. We are a country that is almost $20 trillion in debt 3. Everything the federal government tries to finance or has some sort of strong effect financially breaks except for the military. That is because a. It is constitutional. b. Partisan, both sides agree that we should fund a military. How much is questioned, but both side agree it should be funded and funding is not micromanaged c. The military is ran by generals, not politicians. The levels of bureaucracy is not there. They are government employees with disciplines and order and will protect the constitution. That as opposed to other government employees. With that in mind do you feel that we can fund education and healthcare now at the federal level?
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  24. +Greg Batmarx Oh, on taxes. Even if were were to tax the billionaire at 100% there still won't be enough money.
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  25. +Qingeaton Who is Lush Rimjob?
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  26. +Qingeaton Actually I am a very busy person. Try getting a PhD sometime, it is not easy.
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  27. +Qingeaton I spend time here because Bernie's policies will just compound our problems When I see Bernie supporters I see people that wonder the bad part of the neighborhood at night and wonder why they got robbed. I see people who leave their valuables in the car seat in the parking lot and wonder why their car got robbed. When you leave the door open for bad things to happen they will happen. If Bernie gets elected he will expand the size of the federal government. And when he is gone and future politicians take his place and become corrupt all I will hear from people like you is "wahhhhh". I want to make it so corruption can't potentially happen. When the potential is not there then it can't happen. Also I am not some right winger, I don't like republicans either. Think of it like this. When Bernie gives the federal government more power do you really want a republican congress and president to have that power at the federal level?
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  28. +Greg Batmarx 1. The country was designed so that the federal government enforced the constitution on the states and dealt with foreign affairs. The states enforced the constitution on the fed. and dealt with domestic policies. The idea was a balance in power. Public education can be the greatest thing and worse thing ever. It is great to provide people with education, but an overpowering government can use it as indoctrination. That is why we need a balance. At the state level you have that. The military is strictly for foreign affairs, they can't do anything locally without the governor's consent. 2. The debt is high for several reasons. I agree war is a problem, but our massive welfare program doesn't help. 3. The US military protects the constitution and are the government officials that do it the best. You need to hang out with more people from the military. 4. At what "reasonable" level? This is the problem with Bernie Sanders and his supporters. They can't give out hard numbers. And how are you going to prevent money from being moved to avoid taxes? You think you can just take people's money that they won't do something to protect it?
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  29. +Qingeaton We have corruption, I agree. You stop it by taking away power from the government, not giving it more. Like you get an alcoholic to stop drinking by taking away the alcohol, not giving them more. That is my point. Bernie's policies is going to fuel even more corruption.
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  30. +decay1966 I am interested in a real debate. The problem is that Bernie and his supporters aren't. When one comes up they act like you do, close their ears and say "get out". And I am not a conservative, I am a moderate.
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  31. +RF Music No problem. After the debates he will be exposed as an old fool that is economically illiterate.
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  32. +TechS3eK The youth hes, the educated, no......well surely not the intelligent.
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